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“Anal” is Really the Left Hemisphere

Thanks to Freud, we know that there is another surface, a layer of thoughts and events that guide us that we’re not always aware of. Freud lay the foundation for searching beneath the surface. However, he was quite wrong about his interpretations of that subsurface. Clearly no one today believes women actually envy that male […]

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Heart Mandala Rewards:

I hope the Heart Mandalas can bring beauty to someone else out there.  I recommend cutting them out and feeling them in your hand.  Children can feel the magic of creating beauty on their own.  It is very satisfying.  Children can give parents Heart Mandalas as thank you’s to show their appreciation. Parents can hand […]

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OCD–and the Mandala Remedy:

The variety in nature is overwhelming (and beautiful at the same time.)  I see varieties in species, styles of cooking, materials—the potential variety in this list alone could be too much for me.  I find a relief, a cleansing, in forming HeartPatternsTM such as the Heart Mandalas. TM  When I draw a particular heartflower, I […]

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The Synergy between Art and Science:

Hearts are my tools, like words to a poet, and colors to a painter.  They are an elegant synergy of order and creativity, predictability and surprise.  Hearts are geometric, which is beautiful–the right side of the brain fires up.  Emotions like warmth and love and beauty activate as well.  But hearts have so much logic […]

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The XYZ Patterns

The X-Y-Z PatternsTM Did you know that we all navigate through life on an x-y-z axis?  Our body takes up space.  Our body is upright, along the z axis.  We always bend or lift things along the z-axis.  At all times, we have a front side and a back side, which is the x-axis.  We […]

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Mandala Definition

  Mandala–a circular image that radiates out symmetrically.  It is used by many religious traditions as a meditative tool.  Only Planet Heart has Heart Mandalas.  Planet Heart’s mandalas have special meditative qualities.  The Heart Mandalas are both aesthetic and logical, creative and rigid, fluid and fixed.  They unite many synergistic forces, but especially those of […]

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